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Almost a year and a half ago, President Donald Trump famously tweeted that ‘trade wars are good and easy to win.’  But shortly after heчитати

Thousands of people were left homeless when a fire raged through a slum in Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka. “According to our investigation committee 1,200 shantiesчитати

Protesters rallied in Hong Kong again on Sunday, as anti-government demonstrations, now in their 11th week, continue.  Mike O’Sullivan reports that the protests were firstчитати

Authorities in Gibraltar on Sunday rejected the United States’ latest request not to release a seized Iranian supertanker, clearing the way for the vessel toчитати

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren framed their Democratic presidential bids in personal, faith-based terms Saturday before black millennial Christians who could help determine which candidateчитати

Police in Portland, Oregon, arrested at least 13 people Saturday, established concrete barriers, closed streets and bridges, and seized a multitude of weapons in anчитати

Workers erected a wooden wall around Mexico City’s iconic Angel of Independence monument Saturday after feminists defaced it with graffiti during a raucous and violentчитати

LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO – Officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory have plans for $13 billion worth of construction projects over the next decade atчитати

Updated at 5:52 p.m. Aug. 17. ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Authorities in Afghanistan said a massive bomb blast late Saturday inside a packed wedding hall inчитати

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN – Pakistani intelligence officials said a roadside bomb attack killed two army soldiers Saturday in the country’s northwest.    The officials said theчитати

Thousands of schoolteachers in Hong Kong marched to the official residence of the city’s leader Saturday as another weekend of protests got underway in theчитати

DENALI NATIONAL PARK, Alaska  – Road crews have cleared one lane in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, and buses are beginning to return aboutчитати

Members of China’s paramilitary People’s Armed Police marched and practiced crowd control tactics at a sports complex in Shenzhen across from Hong Kong in whatчитати

U.S. President Donald Trump met Friday with his national security team to discuss the U.S. negotiations with the Afghan Taliban, the White House said. Theчитати

Over the past few days, VOA Mandarin service reporter Suli Yi has spoken to Hong Kong residents at peaceful protests. Any one of them couldчитати

VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report. An Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff off the coast of the British overseas territory Gibraltarчитати

Israel will allow U.S. lawmaker Rashida Tlaib to visit her family in the occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds, the interior ministry said Friday, afterчитати

Australia is offering vulnerable South Pacific nations $340 million to help them deal with the effects of climate change. The announcement came ahead of aчитати

Updated Aug. 16, 12:05 a.m. SEOUL — North Korea has launched a fresh round of short-range weapons into the sea off its east coast, Southчитати

Tie-dyed pilgrims and white-haired Woodstock festival veterans converged at the generation-defining site to celebrate its 50th anniversary, while Arlo Guthrie came back to sing —читати

VOA’s Michael Atit contributed to this report from Khartoum. The United States has imposed a visa ban on the former director general of Sudan’s nationalчитати

The United States criticized Thursday the government in Afghanistan for releasing from jail and into house arrest a key “fraud perpetrator” before the conclusion ofчитати

A newspaper in Gibraltar says the United States has applied to seize an Iranian supertanker that authorities in the British overseas territory were seeking toчитати

Criminal justice activists have long complained that in the United States, routine traffic violations can turn poor people into criminals. The inability to pay finesчитати

Hong Kong braced Thursday for more mass demonstrations through the weekend, with the weekslong crisis escalating after pro-democracy protests forced the cancellation of nearly 1,000читати

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that trade talks with China could wait until tensions in Hong Kong had eased, tweeting: “Of course China wantsчитати

A vaping industry group sued the U.S. government on Wednesday to delay an upcoming review of thousands of e-cigarettes on the market. The legal challengeчитати

Canada’s ethics commissioner said Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau improperly pressured the country’s former attorney general to halt the criminal prosecution of a company,читати

U.S. President Donald Trump attacked China’s trade and financial policies, but refused to criticize Beijing’s pressure on Hong Kong. In a speech Tuesday in Pittsburgh,читати

Donald Trump Jr. promoted two Trump-branded resorts in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, and defended against allegations that the Trump Organization’s global business empireчитати

Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido warned President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday that any attempts to bring forward parliamentary elections would end in “disaster” for theчитати

A longtime human rights lawyer who is running for Tunisia’s presidency as the country’s first gay candidate says he is receiving threats from radical Islamistчитати

CBS and Viacom have reached a deal to reunite media mogul Sumner Redstone’s U.S. entertainment empire after 13 years apart. The new company will beчитати

A Mexican judge has ordered former cabinet minister Rosario Robles detained pending criminal proceedings involving the disappearance of public funds, a lawyer for Robles saidчитати

If all goes as planned, Thai citizens suffering from cancer and a handful of other diseases and disorders could start taking the country’s first legalчитати

Japan says it does not understand why it has been removed from South Korea’s list of trusted trade partners, the latest move in an escalatingчитати